For systematic learning, students can include AP Inter 1st Year English Study Material and Odd Sounds in English Inter 1st Year in their daily study routine.
Inter 1st Year English Odd Sounds with Answers
A set of three words are given. One or two letters which are common in all the three words are underlined. The underlined letter stands for one sound in two of the given words and for a different sound in the other word. The word with a different sound is to be written as the response.
Exercise For Pracitce
| 1. thick | thin | this | this |
| 2. sugar | super | supper | sugar |
| 3. chalk | change | choir | choir |
| 4. about | apple | amaze | apple |
| 5. horse | worst | course | worst |
| 6. beat | heat | head | head |
| 7. agent | huge | single | single |
| 8. gather | ginger | general | gather |
| 9. angel | imagine | angle | angle |
| 10. jigsaw | slogan | danger | danger |
| 11. gadget | engage | gorgeous | engage |
| 12. citizen | carrot | cement | carrot |
| 13. decide | decorate | decade | decide |
| 14. recent | because | recipe | because |
| 15. uncle | fence | bank | fence |
| 16. bring | tonic | sing | tonic |
| 17. among | junk | mind | mind |
| 18. shrink | penguin | panic | panic |
| 19. Alpha | phone | empty | empty |
| 20. receipt | raspberry | hyper | hyper |
| 21. corps | corpse | gipsy | gipsy |
| 22. amphibian | psychology | pneumonia | amphibian |
| 23. fork | algebra | bird | algebra |
| 24. thorn | library | doctor | library |
| 25. sure | treasure | mission | treasure |
| 26. issue | sugar | suit | suit |
| 27. has | observe | vision | vision |
| 28. pleasure | pressure | measure | pressure |
| 29. conscious | tissue | leisure | leisure |
| 30. professor | president | physics | physics |
| 31. assure | closure | insure | closure |
| 32. usual | decision | beside | beside |
| 33. xerox | excel | affix | xerox |
| 34. exhaust | exquistite | example | exquisite |
| 35. puzzle | frizzy | pizza | pizza |
| 36. freeze | seizure | amaze | seizure |
| 37. seiz | sneeze | azure | azure |
| 38. legal | about | angry | angry |
| 39. animal | arrange | ambulance | arrange |
| 40. harsh | match | cabin | harsh |
| 41. exalt | award | drama | drama |
| 42. adore | antique | apart | antique |
| 43. earn | edit | earth | earth |
| 44. egg | enter | era | era |
| 45. peer | tweet | steer | tweet |
| 46. engine | each | eager | engine |
| 47. beast | breath | bean | breath |
| 48. seer | weed | creep | seer |
| 49. eclipse | equal | excuse | equal |
| 50. smile | price | notice | notice |
| 51. image | ignore | ivy | ivy |
| 52. acid | agile | alien | agile |
| 53. field | visit | impact | field |
| 54. quiet | fiber | exist | exist |
| 55. brief | yield | ill | ill |
| 56. clock | potato | hotel | clock |
| 57. old | over | once | once |
| 58. honey | rose | oven | honey |
| 59. lemon | offence | obey | obey |
| 60. movement | occasion | owl | movement |
| 61. wolf | woman | womb | womb |
| 62. observe | occur | orange | orange |
| 63. fool | hook | book | fool |
| 64. moon | foot | tool | foot |
| 65. mood | food | flood | flood |
| 66. cook | stood | cool | cool |
| 67. school | wood | wool | school |
| 68. ugly | unit | upper | unit |
| 69. adult | acute | amuse | adult |
| 70. full | rule | put | rule |
| 71. value | annual | super | super |
| 72. future | nature | student | student |
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Exercises
Question 1.
Find the odd words in the given words keeping the underlined parts of the words.
| 1. cancer | cancel | circus | circus |
| 2. space | fancy | scope | scope |
| 3. dynamic | abeyance | hyphen | abeyance |
| 4. style | analysis | type | analysis |
| 5. owner | maniac | trunk | trunk |
| 6. dainty | trendy | mangle | mangle |
| 7. imply | viper | cupboard | cupboard |
| 8. ample | psalm | expel | psalm |
| 9. sight | studio | sign | studio |
| 10. irritate | isolate | interest | isolate |
| 11. if | ice | idea | if |
| 12. minor | alibi | pilot | alibi |
| 13. option | radio | old | option |
| 14. cold | out | own | out |
| 15. thanks | than | thus | thanks |
| 16. theme | therapy | them | them |
| 17. cheap | chance | ache | ache |
| 18. complexion | exam | exactly | complexion |
| 19. axis | tax | example | example |
| 20. eczema | wizard | dozen | eczema |
| 21. quartz | buzz | quiz | quartz |
| 22. able | apron | avoid | avoid |
| 23. moral | madam | champ | moral |
| 24. begin | erupt | edible | edible |
| 25. echo | epic | easy | easy |
| 26. June | duty | huge | June |
| 27. crude | true | put | put |
| 28. unique | universe | umbrella | umbrella |
| 29. choice | charcoal | character | character |
| 30. melancholy | monarch | beach | beach |
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Question 2.
Identify the odd words from the following words in respect of their underlined sounds and write them.
| 1. full | rule | put | rule |
| 2. old | over | once | once |
| 3. field | visit | impact | field |
| 4. able | apron | avoid | avoid |
| 5. choice | charcoal | character | character |
Question 3.
Identify the odd words from the following words in respect of their underlined sounds and write them.
| 1. about | apple | amaze | apple |
| 2. has | observe | vision | vision |
| 3. seize | sneeze | azure | azure |
| 4. uncle | fence | bank | uncle |
| 5. alpha | phone | empty | empty |